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  1. nicksaviking
    No I agree, my sarcasm did not come across well.
  2. nicksaviking
    I agree, but more sane options probably wouldn't throw the Twins front office under the bus if they got snubbed as it might come across as detrimental to future opportunities. Guillen doesn't seem to have those kind of hesitations.
  3. nicksaviking
    Plus they both bring that Latin flavor to the coaching staff that Ryan claimed to want.
  4. nicksaviking
    Your not suggesting that picking and choosing when to use SABR theories based simply on if they fit your already concrete opinions is antithetical to their success? It's almost like you think you either embrace them or you don't, otherwise they do not do you much good.
  5. nicksaviking
    I don't want Ozzie Guillen, but I do want his opinion. I have no doubt that if he gets asked by a reporter that he will honestly say if the Twins gave him a fair shot. I'd at least like to get a reading of the authenticity of the "outside" search.
  6. nicksaviking
    I agree with Mike, DM seems much more likely to continue "old school" baseball tactics. With Molitor, we at least know that he was the driving force behind the Twins reluctant usage of defensive shifts. I do think DM likely would bring some energy to the club and likely be a motivator for the young guys. Still that will fade over time. These better not be the only two candidates. Ryan said he'd look outside the organization and implied that Latin managers would be considered. I don't care if the search goes into December, keep looking. These two likely both would be nice managers, but this needs to be done right, and as there are 29 other teams with countless employees who may be managerial candidates, the odds are pretty slim that the option that would be most successful here is actually in house.
  7. nicksaviking
    Good research. Not surprised about Rochester with May and Meyer. Even the soft tossing AAAA types seem to do well with strikeouts. I'm not surprised Ft. Myers is low. NB surprises me though. As far as ERA and WHIP go they are average and I would have guessed they were above average yet the strikeouts are above average and I'd have guessed the opposite. CR also surprises me as those starters dodn't seem to miss many bats, I'm guessing the releivers are significantly helping that rating, only Thorpe could manage a respectable K rate in that rotation.
  8. nicksaviking
    Right but only in the OF and a starting pitcher and I don't want any replacement level OF or starting pitchers. Last year the Twins had holes at CF, SS and starting pitching. They were agressive on the pitching front (Nolasco wasn't a good fit but I appreciated the effort) then completely ignored CF and SS and instead signed a catcher and chased a DH who they later signed in June. I have real doubts that this team signs a corner OF who we all don't issue a collective groan about since there are only a couple avilable and there are no good CF available.
  9. nicksaviking
    Hypothetically, if the Twins end up playing this offseason off of PR motives, what will their goals regarding payroll be? Instinct says the right PR move is to increase payroll if they were truly trying to appease the fans and show them they want to win. However they just fired their manager and everyone is pointing fingers at themselves saying they didn't do enough to give him talent. Perhaps getting a new manager and giving HIM an increased payroll actually looks like they screwed Gardy over. Of course this course of action has the added bonus of not spending money. Just a though. Anyway my prediction is the payroll sits at $90 million as the front office will make some knee jerk reactions to try to course correct. I do not predict the $90 million will be well spent and I do predict that more prospects will be blocked.
  10. nicksaviking
    I haven't seen Chargois that high in a while. I could also probably say, I haven't seen Chargois in a while. Good to see he's getting some steam again. It can't describe how much it bothers me when these guys have a write up about big power arms with 99 MPH fastballs and elite K rates like Meyer and say they profile as a #3. Hate it! The last thing Meyer will be is a #3. Front of the rotation? Possibly. Back of the bullpen? Sure. Swing man with control issues, you betcha. Complete flameout? God forbid but perhaps. A #3? Never in a million years. If he doesn't turn out to be a top of the rotation guy, it will be because his control isn't good enough. If his control isn't good enough he's not going to be a #3, he's going to be in the pen or out of baseball.
  11. nicksaviking
    Strange that these two are already being called "finalists." How many finalists are there going to be? I still haven't heard a word about interviewing one of the "outside" or Latin voices Ryan said he was going to consider at the press conference.
  12. nicksaviking
    Right, but of course the point is we wouldn't know what those numbers would have been had he not been cheating. Would they still have been good? Probably. But it's on him, not the fans or the voters, that we'll never know. Perhaps without steroids he struggles in 1999, the Giants don't want to pay a clubhoust cancer the requist money, he ends up signing with a crappy team and he plays out his last couple of years in obscurity. These guys knew how tradition rich this game was. Don't think for a second that it didn't cross their mind that if they got caught, they wouldn't get into the HOF. It didn't matter to them then, why should they get a pass now?
  13. nicksaviking
    If they did, my puppy wouldn't make it.
  14. nicksaviking
      It seemed to me people were just excited to watch Morneau full time. I don't remember any issues other than the fact that the Twins got absolutely fleeced in that three team trade.
  15. nicksaviking
    There have been some good pitchers that have come under his guidence. However it does seem like despite some pretty good velociy, assortment of pitches and overall good stuff, Twins pitchers don't seem to miss as many bats as they should in what is a traditionally a league filled with lots of swing and miss youngsters. Perhaps the move was a reflection of a changing pitching philosophy so many of us have been asking for. The Twins have been last in the league in strikeouts for most of a decade, surely that's an area they are looking to improve upon. I don't know the ins and outs of minor league pitching instruction, but if they viewed Lucas as a coach that is entrenched in a philosophy they no longer wish to employ, then letting him go would make some sense. Still, he sounds like a good guy and it's sad to see anyone let go regardless of the justifications.
  16. nicksaviking
    Nothing wrong with Trevor Plouffe, but he seemed to have gotten a lot more praise than I thought was expected for a player of his caliber. Whether Sano comes up this year or not, if his value is percieved to be that of a decent trade chip, I'm all for moving him because I really only view him as a slightly better than average player. I like the buy low SP options like Masterson. I hate the buy high SP options like McCarthy. Career year and with an anomoly of a K%? No thanks on the 3 year deal it will take to get him.
  17. nicksaviking
    No, the first two slots. I don't need more Pelfreys, Correias or Marquis. Go big or stay home.
  18. nicksaviking
    I guess I'm late too late to the comment board to question the Rogers placement, so instead I suggest perhaps it's possible his increased velocity will have a delayed impact on increased strikeout numbers. Still, does anyone have a take on why so many Twins prospects have good velocity but can't miss bats? Rogers, Stewart, Brett Lee, Tyler Duffey, Ryan Eades, Brian Gilbert, Fernando Romero and Aaron Slegers come to mind. What are we missing? Minor league hitters tend to strike out a ton, even if there isn't a lot of movement on the pitches. What's causing the failure here? Philosophy? Mechanics?
  19. nicksaviking
    I agree that the Twins are much less hesitant to advance players the last several years, at least the hitters. On the other hand, does anyone truly believe that had the Twins drafted Finnegan that there was any chance that he would have been called up this year under any circumstances? The Royals called him up from AA after he started in High A, and he was a starter, not your typical two-pitch relief pitcher who's rough edges are more easily overlooked. Burdi never even got out of A ball.
  20. nicksaviking
    No Gold Glovers are being sacraficed here, we're talking about differing degrees of subpar. Besides, good offense will always trump good defense. Everyone seems to think that the one ball a week that Arcia couldn't get but an average OF would get leads to a run. It doesn't, it just leads to another baserunner; the other team still has to get the runner in. The Twins poor pitching compared to an average team's pitching has had a greater discrepency in extra baserunners allowed than the team's OF defense. If we want to fix the problem, we need to start there. It's like the difference between treating a disease instead of just going ahead and curing it. After reviewing the post, I realized my metaphor may have inadvertantly refered to the Twins rotation as a disease. It was completely subconcious. And I do not take it back.
  21. nicksaviking
    Regardless if he put down in stone a percentage to spend, neither of those two points are true.
  22. nicksaviking
    I care much less about where each of these non-optimal defenders play on the field than I do about getting the best nine bats in the lineup.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'm going to assume that Sansevere wanted to write that the team should move Mauer back to catcher in the team hopes of a career ending injury so they could cash out their insurance policy on him. That kind of editorial surely would not be too cynical for Sansevere, but it must have been for his editor. Good Lord.
  24. nicksaviking
    Guillen did anger anti-Castro Cubans in Miami, I'm not sure if recent defectors have the same animosity toward Castro or not; probably. He is from Venezuala, but reportedly he was a big draw for the influx of Hispanic talent into the White Sox organization including Alexia Rameriz and the reason guys like Orlando Hernandez and Jose Contreras wanted to go to Chicago. Miguel Cabrera also credited Guillen as a big influence on him when Guillen was a bench coach for the Marlins. Perhaps I shouldn't have singled out Cubans, my point was to ask if signing Guillen meant more top level Latin players wanted to sign here, would it be worth it? Particularly if it finally signaled the Twins painfully slow entrance into the Cuban market. Also, as to Oliva, I love him as a Twins ambassador, and certainly the people of Cuba love him, but assuming 20-year-old Cubans are caught up in Oliva's accoplishments is probably akin to assuming 20-year-old Americans are caught up in Rolling Stones lore.
  25. nicksaviking
    I've always been a "Increase payroll, now you cheapskates" screamer, but I don't want any of the elite pitchers on the market this year if it's going to take more than a five year deal, and surely Scherzer and Lester will demand more. Shields plummeting K% makes me want to stay away, we've all seen that show before in Minnesota. So I'd be OK if they got creative with a trade to add a youngish player with a healthy salary, but I guess I'm at the point where I just want to see the young guys play instead of mid or low level free agents, and young guys are cheap. I'm OK with a low payroll next year, heck, if they could magically figure a way to move Nolasco and Pelfrey, I'd be OK with an even lower payroll. Now, we can certainly complain about the fact that the team intentionally put themselves in the position where they are full of young cheap players who would block most free agents to keep payroll down, but now that we're here, I'm ready to see what will happen.
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